Background*

Mr. Dipchand V. Nishar, also known as Deep, has been Advisor at Auction.com, LLC since August 2014. Mr. Nishar served as Senior Vice President of Products and User Experience at LinkedIn Corporation from January 1, 2011 to October 3, 2014. He served as Vice President of Products at LinkedIn Corporation from January 2009 to January 2011 and was responsible for setting and executing global product strategy. Mr. Nishar served as a Product Advisor of Aardvark from 2008 to ... February 1, 2010. He served as Senior Director of Products of Asia-Pacific at Google, Inc. from August 1, 2003 to January 1, 2009. He served as an Advisor of Adku, Inc. from October 1, 2010 to February 1, 2012. Mr. Nishar served as Senior Director of Products, Asia-Pacific at Google. He served as Google's Director of Wireless Products from 2005 to 2007, where he started and managed Google's worldwide mobile initiatives, oversaw the development of innovative products like Google Maps for mobile and Google Search for mobile devices and the formation of partnerships with industry-leading mobile operators, device manufacturers, and software providers. He was responsible for Google's Ads Systems Automation and his team built the back-end infrastructure for Google's monetization systems. Mr. Nishar worked at Siebel Systems, where he was a Member of the founding team of the Universal Application Network (UAN) business unit. He founded Patkai Networks and served as its Vice President of Products from August 1, 1999 to December 1, 2001. He served as an Associate of The Boston Consulting Group and held various product management, marketing, finance and engineering roles at Cummins Engine Company. He served as an Advisor of AISystems, Inc. He has been a Director of TripAdvisor Inc. since September 2013 and OPOWER, Inc. since August 2013. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Personal Capital Corporation. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Apigee Corporation and BetterWorks Systems, Inc. He serves as a Director of MyLikes, Inc. and Churchill Club. He holds 3 patents and was awarded the Google Founders Award for his work on the Google Ads System Automation. Mr. Nishar holds a Bachelor's in Technology with honors from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur from 1986 to 1990, where he was awarded the Institute Silver Medal; a Master's of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign from 1990 to 1992; and an MBA in Business from Harvard Business School from 1999 to 2000, where he graduated with highest honors as a Baker Scholar.

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